Hello everybody,
sometimes the error messages from the compiler can be quite cryptic.
This is nothing serious or ground-breaking, but I thought maybe it
would be
a good idea if we got clojure to tell us which symbol is incorrect?
So I had a look at the code and it turns out this particular error
message can be
improved very easily.
index e095ed0..24416c5 100644
--- a/src/jvm/clojure/lang/RT.java
+++ b/src/jvm/clojure/lang/RT.java
@@ -472,7 +472,12 @@ static ISeq seqFrom(Object coll){
else {
Class c = coll.getClass();
Class sc = c.getSuperclass();
- throw new IllegalArgumentException("Don't know how to
create ISeq from: " + c.getSimpleName());
+ String msg = "Don't know how to create ISeq from: " +
c.getSimpleName();
+ if(coll instanceof Named) {
+ throw new IllegalArgumentException(msg + " ("
+ coll + ")");
+ } else {
+ throw new IllegalArgumentException(msg);
+ }
}
}
I don't think it would be a good idea to print out the coll in every
case - after all, it might be some
huge Java collection that somehow is not seq-able. But for
java.lang.Named this should be quite safe.
Discussion?
Cheers,
Juergen
PS: I did fill out a CA.
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